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Are Cenozoic Topaz Rhyolites the Erupted Equivalents of Proterozoic Rapakivi Granites? Examples from the Western United States and Finland ⁎ Eric H Lithos 97 (2007) 219–246 www.elsevier.com/locate/lithos Are Cenozoic topaz rhyolites the erupted equivalents of Proterozoic rapakivi granites? Examples from the western United States and Finland ⁎ Eric H. Christiansen a, , Ilmari Haapala b, Garret L. Hart c a Department of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA b Department of Geology, P.O. Box 64, FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland c School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2812, USA Received 6 December 2005; accepted 25 January 2007 Available online 2 February 2007 Abstract Eruptions of topaz rhyolites are a distinctive part of the late Cenozoic magmatic history of western North America. As many as 30 different eruptive centers have been identified in the western United States that range in age from 50 to 0.06 Ma. These rhyolite lavas are characteristically enriched in fluorine (0.2 to 2 wt.% in glass) and lithophile trace elements, such as Be, Li, Rb, Cs, Ga, Y, Nb, and Ta. REE patterns are typically flat with large negative Eu anomalies; negative Nb–Ta anomalies are small or nonexistent; and F/Cl ratios in glasses are high (N3). These features, together with high Fe/Mg ratios and usually low f O2, set them apart from subduction-related (I-type) silicic rocks. The rhyolites are metaluminous to only slightly peraluminous, lack indicator minerals of strongly peraluminous magmas, and have low P and B contents; these features set them apart from S-type silicic magmas. Instead, topaz rhyolites have the major and trace element, mineralogic, and isotopic characteristics of aluminous A-type or within-plate granites. Topaz rhyolites were formed during regional extension, lithospheric thinning, and high heat flow. Topaz rhyolites of the western United States crystallized under subsolvus conditions, and have quartz, sanidine, and Na- plagioclase as the principal phenocrysts. Fluorite is a common magmatic accessory, but magmatic topaz occurs only in a few complexes; both are mineralogical indicators of F-enrichment. Many also crystallized at relatively low f O2 (near QFM) and contain mafic silicate minerals with high Fe/(Fe+Mg) ratios. Some crystallized at higher oxygen fugacities and are dominated by magnetite and have titanite as an accessory mineral. Post-eruption vapor-phase minerals include topaz, garnet, red Fe–Mn-rich beryl, bixbyite, pseudobrookite, and hematite. They are genetically related to deposits of Be, Mo, F, U, and Sn. Topaz rhyolites erupted contemporaneously with a variety of other igneous rocks, but most typically they form bimodal associations with basalt or basaltic andesite and are unrelated to large collapse calderas. In their composition and mineralogy, topaz rhyolites are similar to the evolved members of rapakivi granite complexes, especially those of Proterozoic age in southern Finland. This suggests similarity in origin and lessons learned from these rocks may help us better understand the origins of their more ancient counterparts. For example, all topaz rhyolites in western North America seem to be intrinsically related to extension following a regional period of subduction-related volcanism. Cratonized Precambrian crust is found beneath almost all of them as well. Trace element models, Sr–Nd isotopic data, and geologic associations indicate that topaz rhyolites probably form by fractional crystallization of silicic magma which originated by small degrees of melting of hybridized continental crust containing a significant juvenile mantle component not derived from a subduction zone (i.e., intrusions of within-plate mafic magma). The Sr and Nd isotopic compositions of the topaz rhyolites lie between the fields of contemporaneous mafic magmas and older calc-alkaline dacites and rhyolites. Intraplate mafic magmas and their derivatives appear ⁎ Corresponding author. Fax: +1 801 422 0267. E-mail address: [email protected] (E.H. Christiansen). 0024-4937/$ - see front matter © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2007.01.010 220 E.H. Christiansen et al. / Lithos 97 (2007) 219–246 to have lodged in the crust and were then re-melted by subsequent injections of mafic magma. In turn, the mafic mantle-derived magma probably formed as a result of decompression related to lithospheric extension or to convective-flow driven by the foundering of a subducting lithospheric plate. Although significant uncertainty remains, we suggest that topaz rhyolites (and by extension rapakivi granites) are probably not simply melts of mid-crustal granodiorites, nor are they derived solely from felsic crust that was previously dehydrated or from which melt had been extracted as proposed in earlier papers. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Topaz rhyolite; Cenozoic; Rapakivi granite; Proterozoic; Fluorine; A-type; Anorogenic 1. Introduction mass spectrometer (TIMS) at the University of Wiscon- sin–Madison Radiogenic Isotope Laboratory following Topaz in rhyolitic lavas was first discovered in 1859 in standard procedures (e.g., Johnson and Thompson, western Utah and reported in the scientific literature by 1991). Samples were crushed in a steel jaw crusher and Simpson (1876). Since then, topaz-bearing rhyolitic lavas powdered in an agate ball mill. For Sr and Nd, 50 mg have been identified in much of western United States aliquots of whole-rock powders were spiked with 84Sr- (Christiansen et al., 1983), Mexico (Huspeni et al., 1984), and 150Nd-enriched tracers and dissolved in a mixture of the Yukon Territory of Canada (Sinclair, 1986), eastern HF and HNO3, the elements were then separated using Russia and Mongolia (Kovalenko and Kovalenko, 1984). standard ion-exchange chromatography. Total procedur- Topaz-bearing rhyolite dikes of Proterozoic age have also al blanks were b0.1 ng for both Sr and Nd, which are been found in southern Finland (Haapala, 1977)and negligible. For Pb isotope ratios, 100 mg aliquots of central Arizona (Kortemeier and Burt, 1988). Christian- whole-rock powder were dissolved in a mixture of HF sen et al. (1986) concluded that topaz rhyolite lavas from and HNO3, and Pb was separated using HBr and HCl on the western United States are generally similar to some an ion-exchange column. Total procedural blanks for Pb A-type granites. This report summarizes the character- were also negligible at b2 ng. Both Sr and Nd isotope istics of Cenozoic topaz rhyolites–emphasizing new data compositions were exponentially corrected for mass from the Wah Wah Mountains of southwestern Utah–and fractionation using 86Sr/88Sr =0.1194 and 146Nd/144Nd= compares them to Proterozoic rapakivi granites of the 0.7219, respectively. Within-run errors in measured Fennoscandian shield (Fig. 1). Southern Finland is the 87Sr/86Sr ratios for dynamic analyses are determined as type locality of these unique anorogenic granitic rocks, ±2 standard error (2SE) using n=120 (number of mea- which Haapala and Rämö (1992) have redefined as sured ratios). The 87Sr/86Sr ratio measured for NBS-987 A-type granites with rapakivi texture. Once the similar- during this study was 0.710265±8 (2SE, n =13). ities between Cenozoic topaz rhyolites and Proterozoic Neodymium was measured as NdO+ and is presented as rapakivi granites are clear, we consider a new model for εNd values relative to present day CHUR, taken to be the origin of topaz rhyolites and its implications for the equal to BCR-1, measured during the analytical session as petrogenesis of rapakivi granites in particular and A-type 0.512636±5 (2SE). Within-run errors in measured granites in general. 143Nd/144Nd ratios for dynamic analyses are reported as 2SE where n=150 (number of measured ratios). Twelve 2. Methods of study analyses of an internal Ames Nd standard yielded a 143Nd/144Nd ratio and precision of 0.511977±3 (2SE). New geochemical data in this paper are presented for Lead isotope ratios were corrected for mass fractionation rhyolite lavas from in and near the Wah Wah Mountains by +0.14% per atomic mass unit based on fourteen of southwestern Utah (Fig. 2). Major and trace element analyses of NBS-981 (±0.005%; 2SE) and NBS-982 compositions were collected by X-ray fluorescence (±0.008%; 2SE) standards. spectrometry at Brigham Young University. Analyses of international materials for 31 elements can be found at 3. Distribution and ages http://www.geology.byu.edu/faculty/ehc/.Elemental and isotopic compositions of other topaz rhyolites and 3.1. Distribution of topaz rhyolites in western United for Finnish rapakivi granites are taken from the States references cited below. New Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope compositions were mea- Topaz rhyolites are widespread in western North sured on a GV Instruments Sector 54 thermal ionization America (Fig. 1) and have been found as far north as E.H. Christiansen et al. / Lithos 97 (2007) 219–246 221 Fig. 1. (a) Distribution of topaz rhyolites (filled circles) from western United States. All are found within the extensional terranes of the Basin and Range Province and the Rio Grande Rift. Modified from John et al. (2000) and Dickinson (2002). The 87Sr/86Sr line marks the western edge of Precambrian basement (modified from Kistler and Peterman, 1978; Wooden et al., 1998; Tosdal et al., 2000). (b) Precambrian rapakivi granites of southern Finland (modified from Lukkari, 2002; Haapala and Lukkari, 2005). (c) Index map showing location of (b) in Fennoscandia. Montana and extend southward into central Mexico. Most (Castor and Henry, 2000) is the only one that has been known topaz rhyolites in the western United States lie found in the northwestern Basin and Range province, in within the eastern and southern Basin and Range province spite of common bimodal (basalt–rhyolite) volcanism and and along the Rio Grande rift and thus appear to surround extensional faulting throughout the province. The young the Colorado Plateau. Nearly all topaz rhyolites lie east of lithosphere in this region, with its mafic crust, does not the initial 87Sr/86Sr=0.706 line as determined for generally appear to have a composition appropriate for the Mesozoic plutonic rocks (Fig.
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